Daily Archives: Monday, 060424

was a soon-to-be ex-student of the Renton Vocational Technical Institute in their Musical Instrument Repair program

thought i was going to graduate, move back to bellingham (which is where my girlfriend and our four-year-old son lived), get the ideal job as a musical instrument repair technician and live happily ever after

10 years ago I…

was 34 years old

was working as a technical support engineer for mac products at microsoft (so much for technical school training and the “ideal” job)

was living in a tiny, 1-room apartment in the basement of a building in downtown seattle, and was in the middle of an intense legal battle over custody of my fourteen-year-old son.

5 years ago I…

was 39 years old

was working as a test lead at STLabs

started Hybrid Elephant, the business that moe and i had been playing around with for 3 years or so.

3 years ago I…

was 41 years old

was working as a graphic artist at a minuteman press shop, from which i was fired for having a brain injury instead of showing up for work for two months

was two months away from having a brain injury, but had no clue that it was going to happen

1 year ago I…

was working as a graphic artist at a different minuteman press shop, very quickly getting fed up with the owner who is a mental midget… and this opinion is coming from a person who doesn’t have a complete brain!

was living in a RV in juanita, because we still hadn’t figured out where we were going to move to after having to move out of our big house in renton because i was unable to find a steady job after my injury

was getting really fed up with having to have a job in order to survive, and was actively looking for alternatives

okay, i’m going to see if i can actually post pictures without having to delete everything and start over, like i had to yesterday… by the way, for anybody who cares, LJ has in mind converting to “rich text” editing by defalt, rather than the “plain text” editing that they currently have, and the rich text editor currently sucks big fat rancid donkey dicks. regardless of where you want to put <lj-cut> tags, it has the tendency to put them where it thinks they should go, which means around the text instead of around the pictures, regardless of how big they are, and the “edit source” button lets you edit the raw html, but when you click the “Okay” button on the source window, the “rich text” editor goes back to the same, incorrect html code that it had before, and there doesn’t appear to be any way to go back to plain text once you’ve chosen the rich text editor. it reminds me very much of the HTML editor i worked on at micro$lop a few years ago, which didn’t recognise HTML standards and had a number of bugs which it still has because micro$lop developers decided that, despite the fact that i logged several bugs against it, “nobody would notice”…

the bumper sticker on the right says “WARNING: This object does not exist!”

now that’s the way HTML code should look, and it displays the way i want it to…